TikTok in the United States: an uncertain future and global technological advances

The idea of ​​prohibiting TikTok completely in USA has been in the air for almost two years, but right now it is closer than ever because the House of Representatives has approved a bill that would force the video platform to disassociate itself from ByteDanceits parent company in China, or face an outright ban.

Now it will be the Senate that will have to rule and, if a result in the same direction occurs, President Joe Biden will sign it. TO ByteDance He is accused of having strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

The CEO of TikTokShou Zi Chew, has already warned that they are not going to sit idly by and watch their main market disappear.

There is a buyer in sight

Maybe some big fish in the pond are already waiting for that piece of food to fall on them. TikTok It is a very desirable prey. As soon as the news broke, the former Secretary of the Treasury of USA Steven Mnuchin said it is gathering a group of investors to try to buy the Chinese app.

Mnuchin He was very careful in an interview with CNBC to say who his partners would be and did not make an economic calculation of how much the company is worth. It is noted that Mnuchin He likes business more than dulce de leche, because last week, Liberty Strategic Capital, a company he owns, was one of the main investors in a billion-dollar raise to stabilize the bank New York Community Bancorp.

Can you imagine talking to a robot? Today we speak with bots in different services, but in the future we will be able to do it with a humanoid. This is Figure 01, whom its creator, the technological company Figure, has shown in a video having conversations with humans and reasoning thanks to technology. OpenAI.

Figure 01 was able to recognize the elements that were around him and describe them fluently. “I see a red apple on a plate in the center of the table, a drying rack with cups,” and when asked to get something to eat, he took the apple, claiming that the fruit was “the only edible item.”” that was on the table.

Figure points out that this is possible because “The models OpenAI provide high-level visual and linguistic intelligence”. It won’t be many years before we can have a nice chat with a robot and it will tell us: “It’s good to talk to you!”.

WordPress, a desirable loot for ‘cybercacos’

Many companies worldwide use WordPress to develop their web pages due to its wide range of templates and designs that make this task easier, but ‘cybercracks’ also ‘use’ it.

In its February Global Threat Index, Check Point Software Technologies warned of the discovery of a new “fakeupdates” campaign that attacked WordPress websites that were infected using compromised “wp-admin” administrator accounts and altered editions of “plugins.” of the same tool.

According to the index, this type of “fakeupdates” has been operational since 2017 and behind it are groups like Evil Corp, which monetizes it “by selling access to the systems it infects.”

Let’s say you acquire the capital and set up your SME. The time to export arrives and it says “Oh, and now who can help me?”And they appear Google and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) what red grasshoppers and say “Yooooooo!”.

Both institutions have presented the course ‘International trade with artificial intelligence and digital tools for SMEs’ with the aim of promoting and increasing the exports of this type of companies.

Those who register will receive advice, technical trainingpractical guidance and knowledge about digital and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, which will help them plan an appropriate strategy for the country they target.

The course can be accessed through ConnectAmericas.com, the IDB’s technological resource center.

An ‘electric move’ in Brazil

Brazil, a country with enough technology to be a power and enough beach to go and sunbathe in the sun, because in the South American giant it has been announced that Volkswagen will begin producing in the second half of 2024 an electric bus model whose first prototypes They have been undergoing tests since last year.

The model named e-Volksbus will be produced at the Volkswagen Trucks and Buses (VWCO) plant in Resende, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The e-Volksbus, which has a capacity of 22 tons and a range of 250 kilometers, was developed by the same team of engineers that launched the e-Delivery in 2021, the first electric truck fully developed and manufactured in Brazil.